This work illuminates what we can know about women, food, medicine, and diet in the Middle Ages, and examines how the written medical tradition interacts with folk medicine and other cultural factors in both understanding women's bodies and their roles as healers and food providers.
This work illuminates what we can know about women, food, medicine, and diet in the Middle Ages, and examines how the written medical tradition interacts with folk medicine and other cultural factors in both understanding women's bodies and their roles as healers and food providers.
Theresa A. Vaughan is Professor of Humanities in the department of Humanities and Philosophy, Director of the Center for the Advancement of the Liberal Arts, and Assistant Dean of the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Central Oklahoma. She obtained her Ph.D. in Folklore with a double minor in Anthropology from Indiana University. Her work focuses on women's folklore, foodways, and the Middle Ages. She is co-editor of the Encyclopedia of Women's Folklore and Folklife with Liz Locke and Pauline Greenhill, and serves on the editorial boards of Digest: A Journal of Foodways and Culture and Journal of Folklore Research.
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Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Women as Healers Women as Food Producers 2. Medieval Theories of Nutrition and Health 3. The Special Problems of Nutrition and Women's Health 4. Medicine vs. Practical Medicine 5. The Trotula and the Works of Hildegard of Bingen 6. The Legacy of the Trotula 7. Women's Diets and Standards of Beauty 8. Religious Conflict and Religious Accommodation 9. Evolving Advice for Women's Health Through Diet Bibliography Index
Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Women as Healers Women as Food Producers 2. Medieval Theories of Nutrition and Health 3. The Special Problems of Nutrition and Women's Health 4. Medicine vs. Practical Medicine 5. The Trotula and the Works of Hildegard of Bingen 6. The Legacy of the Trotula 7. Women's Diets and Standards of Beauty 8. Religious Conflict and Religious Accommodation 9. Evolving Advice for Women's Health Through Diet Bibliography Index
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